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ToL. XVIII iJfIfiTBKPERAKOE BANKER 1 is the (..an of the Sons of Temperance n and of the State Convention of Ceorgia: PUBLISH EO WEEKLY, ~v besjAIHN lUA*TLY. JJ- TußMg— One Dollar a year,in advance. Letters must be Dost paid, to reeeWeat $ Banner Almanack, for 1852.^, 1 - nrfil ? iI I % 2 and 111 I ills | 3 bUfi.lt $ • llHliliilkfli ‘ lililihuiiii > Q teS&iSis&iil |>;i27’N*,*iiX j I—■{wi ij <A 2 l-.’ I ‘7,1;-: 1:| 2]!21 < > |jsi:;iil i L, i*Fgl9-!, Urt: S April 'ilr.'i si 7! Si njtnj !3; 4| S'Alii,?:.? bi g UHTIU.I.VII7 jU'ii;;-;A; *1 <y 3,. tew sWiTi^i a l sm=sas5 m=sas gMtasi h* Iri 7i *i 9!• ft 12! ‘ r *. t 7 ‘■’i y.l°| ll ’ j/ 1 i'^SSSSSSS^I! WJ. When lie is worm. 1 n iriic ihe l'Ot vrort $8 ! <Q X Wi,eheiscol.i. I 12. WheulWH KU*. > : U3. When lie irwet- ( !?• , ! s. r " re ‘I fi O I (f; 4. Wlie,i he is dry. f :X A J When li 'm dull. ( t<>. W Imjr he getn P- r /. * H hen he is li 7- l ‘J- ,\ V ’ h . cn ,• ,v b " l ’ X S V 7. When he tr.ivfcl-.. / 17. On h->lj- V $ 8. When he is at home. \ IS. <J n 1 u-.lw occasions. _ V J 9 When lie ism e inpiiny l l!>. Onftny dayt or lx> y Ft-gT* Every friend to Temperance X fj should take the Temperance Banner: \t Q -m’ Temperance men will not support X Jjh Pros*, who \uH . ; A*. -4 at^^ ! MORAL AND RELLGIOLg^; I atlt i ESosite niidiSfavcii. Father mine! * The earth is cold above thee—long ago They laid thee down within the silent tomb, With breaking hearts, and smoothed the turf above, Thy dreamless slumber. Glorious sum mer-time Was there, to blend her ringing harmonies, - Os bird, and breeze, and stream, and water tail— As though a scrap!i a \vi :ig had swept the , liarpe Os universsl nature, till its chords’ Thrilled the soft air with thousand melodics, i A sounding anthem to the mighty one, Whose breath had kissed creation into life. Unheeded on tiie “dull cold ear of death,” That fairy music trembled, and the words Os “dust to dust” j irred like a discord strange, Along that strain of rich mild harmony, And told its origin was but of earth. Long weary and ays have mingled with the past, Since from thy grave they slowly turned away, As from their hearts the spirit of dispair, Gushed in hnv broken tones, and shudder, ing sough t, A darkened home, to dwell no mote with thee, Have in the realms of hope and memory. r t%c earth is eold above thee, and to-day Tiie wintry storm wails through tiie leaf less trees, And sighs around thy monumental urn, Its requiem. Hut far within my heart, Thou hast a brighter being as thou wast, Joyous and young and proudly beautiful; Remembrance cannot trace, but as thou art More lovely titan before, a withering blight Had touched thy check's young bloom, or pale disease. Blended its fading roses—ere the weight Os fearful suffering crushed thy tender form; Thou art before me in the dazzling light, Os angel beauty, robed in loveliness— A soft star gleaming through tiie misl of life, A ladiant seraph by the throne of God 1 Home far away! Like dew oa lily leaves, the gentle tones Os olden time fall o'er my sleeping spirit; Remembrance, faithful to her guarded trust, Is bending o’er me, and her pencil fair, Traces upon my heart the faded times, Os old familiar scenes. It stirs my soul, As waving flame is shaken by the wind, At midnight hour. I hear the solemn dirge Os ocean rolling on to meet the shore, And winds that murmur thro’ the swisper ing place. Bl ue are tiie skies above me, softly through The dim recesses of a linden grove, The streamlet wanders, and wild birds song Sweeps by me with the tone of suinmur hours. And now a train of glorious images Come brightening up along the shadowy past, ■ Blent with the music ofd •parh-d veers; A pilgrim train—and oVr a -0.. of sighs,” They pass to bow before the,ruined -mine, And broken altar-stone where burned the light, Os pleasant hopes that perished long ago, And bring again the wreaths of faded joys; That moulded round a long neglected lyre, Enshrined in memories tern pie. My spirit revels ami nty heart forgets, In the soft maze of that bewildering dream, That it is but a wanderer. Strangers now Circle around that glowing hearth where once A joyous trio gathered—stranger hand Will train the infant buds that cluster o’er Our vjne ciad casement—they will thrill to bloom, * i And birds and bees will lull them to repose, i At evening’s hour with murmured melody; j But tlie young heart that trembled to their lny, And loved them in its purity, will be Far, far away—and when in strange lands,] It wandered forth without one loving eyo j To light its wayward path, its dreams shall , be Os thee, sweet home,as soft as whisper falls,! Lovely and sweet,and fraught with melody: ! “Blest are the loved, for there is a fore- ! shadowing of paradise!” Home above 1 Strong feeding with its deep resistless tide, j Os wildering visions—hopes of rainbow i light, And wreaths of aspiration like acloud, Os incense sweet, eternally ascending, Fleets ever up to thee! within this world,! Os all things mutable and fleeting fair; llovv pants the soul to drink that living ‘ murmur, “Forever faithful”—tones that live and love 1 And never change. Vain hope—vainer I trust. Those fearful characters are stamped upon ; Ail earthly tilings —and immortality, That amaranthine signature of God Rest not for us, on aught beneath the skies. : ! Nothing to us is changeless, save the faith, I And hope of heaven, ’mid the broken gems, And crushed rose petals of departed joys; j Immaculate—and amid the tainted breath, j Os worldly passion, winds that sweep around i i ; Laden with memories of a wreckless past, | Dim with the majesty of future hours. It rests, an angel with a folded wing. Tit ere is a soil, dim twilight of the heart, \iid gltnving memories Unger far along, Its hustled horizon, with a beauty like, The clouds of evening floating as they sleep. Father, ’lis lh.ee that holy thought ot thee, And home, aud heaven where though art reigning now, Come stealing onward through the shadowy gloom. I hear the waving of their angel wings Across that twilight sky -and seem to list, The cadence of thy bow, sweet music tone, That perished long ago. My heart is lone And weary now—and oh, that it should strive Thus on weak words to pour a stream of Winging the flame from lava views that bur.'t From passions fount, when it should wait the hour, The blessed hour, when it shall find once more, Father, and Home in Heaven 1 JULIA. Coving!o,i, Ga., Feb. 25th, 1352. AGRICUJL i URAL Facts for Farmsis ] It will not do to hoe a great field for ‘ all little crops, or to mow twenty acres ! for live loads of hay. Enrich the land : and it will pay you for it. Better farm I thirty acres well, than fifty by halves, j In dry v. eajhcr dig for wat, ron the j brow oi the hill; springs are more gen ! orally near the surface than in the vale.. The foot of the owner is the best ma nure for land. Cut bush s that you wish to destroy, j in the summer, and with a sharp instru-! i tiient—they will bleed freely, i Account should be kept in detailing i i tho expenses and product of each field. . When an implement is no longer j wanted for the season, lay it carefully ; ] aside, but first let it be well cleaned. ! O. Haiti good seed, prepare your : ground well, sow early and pay very . little attention to the moon. • Cultivate your own hear! aright ;• re-. {-.member that “whatsoever a-man sow-j | trill, that shall lies also reap.” j Do not begin fanning by building j an extensive house, nor a spacious barn { till you have something to store in it. i Keep notice of rental liable events on j ! your farm. ! Recording even your errors will bo j ! of benefit. ; Good fences make good neighbors. • The better animals can be, and the; i more comfortable they can lie kept, the ■ i more profitable they are, aud all farm- j i ers work for profit. Sow clover deep, it secures it ugatnsi 1 ! the drought. Cows well fed In* the winter, give i more milk itt the summer. I When you see the fence down, put it up, if it remains until to-morrow the | cuttle may get over. What ought to be done to-day, do it, j lor to-morrow it may rain. i _ i Horse Shoeing. —Mr. Miles, tiie Veterinary Surgeon ot tiie English Life Guards, a man famed for skill in , ’ bis profession, makes the following re-; ! marks on the subject of horse shoeing;; The shoe of Hie horse should he of equal thickness throughout with a fiat i;round surface, as those with high heels, which some smiths make in imi tation of their own, are dangerously ab surd. The toe, which ought to be raised, is lowered, and nature’s plan is reversed, which elevates the point in order to avoid obstructions. The web should be wide and oi the same width throughout; instead of being pinched in because the smith li es to see the shoe well set off at tiie heels. This is both unphilosophical and detrimental; it deceives the eye of man and injures* the foot of the horse. The outer edge of the foot rests on the inner edge of. PENFIELD, GA. MAIIOH 13, 1852. tiie shoe, and tiie remaining of tlin web projects beyond the, hoof, so that tho master who thinks that his horse had u good open foot, only Ims to be proud of n bud open shoe, which both j conceal deformities underneath, und in vites with open arms a had road to come j i and do its worst. Tiie heels are made I i bare just where the navicular joint is | mod exposed; otid if that be inflamed, what must be the agony when the un j protected foot treads on a sharp flint ? Tiie horse falls suddenly lame, or drop* ! as if lie had been shot; phrases in much ; too common use to require explanation; | and small is the pity which tho suffer- I ing animal meets with from man, who, ! having first destroyed the use of his vic tim’s feet, abuses him because he can not go; and impute “grogginass” to , him as a crime, us it he ‘.'••■re in liquor. ; aud not. in agony.—Germantown Tele , graph. Blanket Yotra Horses. —Men an and! horses only sweat. So say the medical men, whose business it is to investigate! the wonderful living mechanism of both, i The ox cools off by accelerated respira- i tion; ifheated in the furrow, he partially j opens his mouth and drops his tongue, 1 and by rapid respiration, breathing! throws off the excess of heat which has i accumulated in the system. The dog ! which runs at the side of the carriage | through the intense heat of a July sun : dashes into the cold spring with impuni-1 ty, and returns refreshed, having no’ j perspiration to check, ‘when men or j J horses submerged in a similar manner j ; would suddenly check perspiration, and ! I if they survived the shock, it would ho j ]to die with acoute or chronic inflama- ! I tion. In violent motion, the respiration of i j botli iiii'ii and horses is increased, but 1 | not sufficiently so as to carry off the heat that is generated—they perspire | through the skin, the pores of which be i come opened or enlarged, and it is while j in this condition that both aie exceeding ; ly liable to be injured, and when great ; care is necessary to preserve the health ! of either. Fashion able Education. I There has of late years sprung up a certain flashy method of educating cltil i dren, whereby they appear to know a ! great deal, when in reality, they have i learned nothing thoroughly. Against this brilliant superficiality, w-c enter a most serious protest. We have no objection to the drudge ry of learning being enlightened, as far as it is possible to be done judiciously, j and without impairing the solidity of! ] the boy’s acquirements; but it is the unhappy custom, at many of our sash -1 ionble schools and colleges, to confound j : boys of every grade of mental ability : j together, to give them a smattering of j ] ail the more showy kinds of knowledge, i Ito cram them with what they do not! - understand, and then to parade them at j semi-annual exhibitions, that fond mo j thers, and foolish fathers, may admire the wonderful aptitude of their child i ren, and applaud, by delusive testimo- I niuis, the skill of the teachers. This new style of ‘‘learning made j easy,” is fraught with the most injuri- j ! ous consequences. It can only result 1 !in forming shallow thinkers, narrow reasoners, and pompous dogmatists- We are well aware that the old inode of education, by which a firm and solid j bas-s was first laid, and the mental su ! “erstrneturc raised by the slow, but j sure processof gradual accretion, meets ! with but little favor from those fast men, j ! who, like Fn.uk, would “put a girdle j round tiie earth in forty minutes,” and ‘then fly off at a tangent and encircle the planets in a similar manner. j “It is a railroad age,” says one, -‘and , mental processes must be accelerated jto keep pace with it.” But there is, in reality, no truth in the proposition. ! Children are still children, and as yet, ! fortunately for thouiselves, are con j strained, by the old natural laws of de velopment, to pass through the usual intervening stages by which infancy i progresses to maturity. livery one who has looked through a j kaleidoscope, well knows, that jf turned ; in the hand, it will present an interim, liable scries of brilliant patterns, many jof them exceedingly showy and intri-’ cate; but the toy is of little service be yoijd that of amusing a few leisure rnn 'bents. Now, if the structure of this same kalcidscope is examined, it will ‘ he found that these pretty combinations arc formed by bits of colored glass re flected from angular mirrors, lining the 1 interior of the tube. It is just so with fashionable educa tionalists. They heap conlusedlv in! the youthful mind quite a number of hiilliant fia o ni rits and then, exhibit ing them as reflected from various men tul angles,lead their thoughtless patrons wide astray from the question of solid benefit, by calling upon them to admire the picturesqueness of the effect. It is a great mistake, into which the public have been led, that education j consists in the extent of a bov\, acquire ments. To fill the memory with a vast store of knowledge is not educa tion by tiny means, and will be found, i in after life, but a poor substitute for j that habit of mental application by : which a subject is canvassed until i thoroughly understood. Educate a boy j so that lie acquires this habit; lot him; attempt to grasp, mentally, no more’ than he tan fully comprehend, and he ; ! will become far more useful and effec-1 ttve as a man, than your brilliant, but! : really superficial scholar who bears off , the first honors. We are well satisfied that in our pri ! vate as well as in our public school sys- I .cuts, children are educated more with | a view to the teachers’ than the scholar’s : benefit. Tne public see only the semi ! annual outside show; but are ignorant iofiiKe,:.- defects, and the wrong suf fered by the mentally sluggish c, natu- I rally volatile and intractable. ■blit is, we believe, impossible to right ly educate children in the bulk as it is j done in tiie public and a number of our j private schools. Too many scholars ere given to one instructor, who is ob-; liged to arrange them in classes, and require all, whether naturally clear minded or obtuse, to go through with l the same order of lessons. Some get, these lessons easily, and it may be! thoroughly, while others can only skim! ! through them, and fix them, tem-! ; porarily, in the very outer chamber off ■ the memory. The bright boys get! i along very well; but it would be a j j mockery to say that the dull scholars j receive anything like an education. In | | the very nature of things, under such a | system, this is impossible, j Some years ago we heard a gentle i man who had been long familiar, as an i instructor, with the working ofour pub- j i lioschools, say, that they ‘were better ! than no schools.” We were struck with the rem irk, and set it down at the time as -the offspring of prejudice.- Since then, a closer observation has led us to believe that.it was no mere light I saying, and that parents who are fully i able to pay for the education, of their | children, are hardly just to them when ! they crowd them into our already over | flowing public schools, where ail intel- I lects and dispositions are measured by i a singlestandard, and where a sad defi ciency of teachers renders it impossible for those who have charge of the classes j to give any special attention to individ | uals, no matter what may be their he | reditary delects or peculiarities. Education means something more than a mere cultivation of the intellect ual faculties; and parents who are wise, I | will look at our present fashionable sys-| j terns, both public and private, from this l : point ot vision, and estimate them accor- j j dingly.— AiUhur's Gazelle. Short Patent Sermon. By Dow JR. I shail give give a sermon to-day drawn from the followfing text : Tim lady who, before a tub, Is not ashamed to ring or rub; Or on the floor ashamed to scrub, And cares net who calls in to sea Her laboring so industriously, Will make a wife for you or mo. My hearers—it was ordained by Heaven—not by the devil—that every man should have a wife, and every vvo. man be blessed with a husband. In the beginning God made two of the genus homer —of opposite sex. The otto Irc elected posi lively and the other one neg atively, so that when approximated,! their mystical effect could be produced l from one or the other. , Tiie how, why and the wherefore, no mortal has yet J been able to understand, neither is it; necessary that he should. The sexes naturally approach and adhere to each other, through some mysterious influ ence that admits of no solution. Let it, sullice that it is so. When the Creator made Adam lie saw that it was not good for him to be alone, so he mesmerized! the man; dug a rib from his side with-! out the least particle of pain—and from it he made Eve, to boa helpmate foi him as well ns a plaything. Now with , out knowing what love was, they could! ; not help loving the moment they set j their eyes upon one another. Ho cast sheep’s eyes at her at u distance and shotlnew some killing glances in re. ; turn that fired his soul, and set his ; heart vibrating like a splinter upon u | chestnut rail in a sou’wester. They i finally came together as naturally as a couple of apple seeds in a basin of wa ter. But situated as they were at first, and having little or no manual labor to, perform—Eve could be of little utility i to Adam, and Adam could’nt do a great ideal for Eve. Slill they loved and were ready to assist each oilier, in case i of any emergent casualily, and so when they found that aprons were necessary, j they sat to and with the needle I worked together tor mutual good. Eve only understood plain sewing—sue knew nothing about your embroidery, lace working, and piano ploying. The couple were perfectly happy in their’ rude aad rough state, until the old sni pin'. got among ’em, and even then they stuck to each other through thick ; and thin—through all the Lrambliny vicissitudes of life, from Paradise to Perdition. My. brethren, since you know that I ; marriage is a divine insitution, and that! I every one of you should have a wife, ; what kind of a rib would you select ? ■ A pretty little useless doll, or a woman i ! big and spunky enough to wrestle with i [ a bear and come- oIF first best ? I im- 1 | ngine you would care nothing for eitli-: or extreme; but you would look for! ; personal charms. O, you foolish idola-’ | ters at the shrine of.beauty ! Know you not that hundreds of husbands have been n.ade miserable by handsome wives, and thousands are happy in the possession of homely ones ?—homely j without, beautiful within. Alas! what is beauty ? It is a flower that wilts and withers almost as soon as it is plucked, a transient rainbow, a fleeting meteor, a deceitful will o’wisp, sublimated moon-shine. The kind ol a wife you want is of good morals and knowhow jto mend trousers, who can reconcile peeling potatoes with practical or fash j ionable piety, who can waltz with a ; churn dash, and sing with a teakettle, who understood broouioiogy, and the ! true science of mobbing—who knit stockings without knitting her brows and knit up her husband’s raveled I sleeve,.pfeare, who prefers sowing tares I with her needle, to sowing tares ofsenn- R dal with her tongue. Such is decided ly a “better half.” Take her if you can get her, wheresoever you can find ; her—let her be up to her elbows in the , | suds of a wash tub, or picking geese in ! a eow stable. My Itearers—my text speaks of ala- \ dy before a wash tub. You may think I it absurd, but let me assure you that a ! | female can be a lady before a wash tub, i )or in the kitchen, as much ns in the! | drawing room or in the parlor. What I 1 constitutes a lady ? It is not costly , dress, paint for the checks, false hair, j and still false air; but it is her general I deportment, her intellectual endow-1 ments, and that evidence ol virtue ; which commands the respect and admi ration ol the world. She would be rec- j ognized as a lady at once—it matters not where or in -what situation she were found—whether scorching bed bugs with a red hot poker, or hollowing hallelujah at a Methodist camp-meet ing. Ail that I have farther to say, fel low bachelors, is, that when you marry, see that you get a lady inside and out — one who knows how to keep the pot boiling, and looks well to the household. So mote it be. A Ghost Story. One day lately an old lady, at Sbuth j vvick, paid a visit to her nephew, whom she had not seen for a long time. IFe !of course, was extremely glad to see ! Iter, and insisted on her stopping all night. The house consisted of u front and back kitchen upon the ground floor, with a corresponding number of rooms above. The nephew and his family slept above,and to accommodate his aunt, who | hao been used to sleep where there ] was a fire, the old lady slept down \ stairs. A poney occupied the back kitchen as a stable, from which there! [ was communication by a door. Tim I !old lady having made up the fire, and i I performed her devotions, lay down to; ! rest. Just as she was about to fall to! ! sleep, the fire then burning Very dull, j [she was startled by a terrible appari-! | tion, which stalked across the floor, very \ slowly towards the fire. Not being a | ble to see distinctly, her agitation may be better imagined than described. Terror completely paralyzed her, and, !as she described afterwards, she had not power to speak. The ghost, liow lever, feeling the lire very comfortable, : lay down before it; but in doing so, li is ! bin I parts catnein contact with the bed stead. The sudden shock caused the , ’ old lady to find her tongue, when she 1 ; cried out, “O Lori] have mercy upon i me, fiave mercy upon me !” which she continued to repeat so loud, that her nephew heard her up stairs, when be j came down and discovered that the ter- ‘ rible ghost was none other than the poor old Dobbin, who, being cold in his sta-! ble, had forced open the door, and laid ;hi rose 1 f down near tho lire in theold lady’s bedroom.— Shield's Gazelle. Noble Sentiments. —This an agree- 1 j able world after all. If we would only J bring ourselves to look at the subjects ! that surround us in their .rue light, we I should see beauty where we behold de formity, and listen to harmony where !we beard nothing but discord. To be ! sure there is a great deal of vexation 1 land anxiety to meet; we cannot sail, | upon a summer coast forever; yet if we J : preserve a cahn eve and steady hand, Iwe can so trim our s ui-; and manage our helm as to avoid the quicksands and weather the storms tliut threaten shipwreck. H'e are members of one j great family; w*e are travelling the same road, and shall arrive at the same iron 1. We breathe the same ail, ares subject to the sums bounty, and we j shall lie down on the bosom of our com-; mon mother. It is not becoming, tlien, that brother should hale brother; it is not right that neighbor should deceive neighbor. We pity that man who can harbor enmity against his fellew man; ho looses half the enjoyment of life; hs embitters his own existence. Let us tear from our eyes the colored rfledium that invests every object with the green hue of jealously and suspicion; turn a a deafear to scandal; dreathe the spirit’ jof charity from our hearts. I t the rich , gushings of human kindness swell up 1 as a fountain, so that tho “goldcr. age,” i will become no fiction, and islands of the blessed bloom in more titan “Hv ! perian beauty.” From the Washington Union Improvamant ia Fira-Artm. We had an opportunity on yeste. Jay ot inspecting the self-loading rifle, re. contly invented and patented by Col. P. W. Porter, of Tennessee. Our utten . tion had been drawn to this subject j some weeks since by observing the 1 proceedings of the Tennessee legisla ture, in which th r 'rc-arm was spoken j of in the .strongest terms ofeommenda ! tion and in which the governor of the Stale was instructed to call tor tnu art i for the use of the militia of Tennessee, instead of tho musket. After examina i ting the gun for ourselves, we have ar ■ rived at the same conclusion with the members of the Tonnesseo legislature ! and the prominent military men of this ! State. Wc regard it as the most im (portant improvement made in small arms for many years, and one of which the government ought to avail itself. The rifle is used either as a revolver or a seli-loader. Asa revolver it fires eight times in succession, and may ba immediately converted into a self-load-’ er, when it fires from thirty to sixty times in succession, according to the size of the magazine used. As are voiver, it can bo discharged sixteen i times in a half a minute; anil as a self [ loader, fiom thirty to fifty times in a | minute. It is a beautiful gun* and is ! light and easily handled. The prinoi i pie may be applied to the shot-gun and I pistol, and we are informed by Col.- i Porter that he is having finished one of i each, which will be exhibited in a short i time. ‘1 lie rille shoots with as much ’ accuracy as the ordinary ride, and with ! greatly more force; whilst it can ba j used with efficacy in any kind of weatli er. Co'.. I’orter is having his rides mfcnu j factored at Taunton and Worcester, in ! Massachusetts. At the former place, I George r. rosier Ce (Jo. have orders I fo r six thousand five hundred of this ; ride; and at the latter, Messrs. Allen, : Brown & Sutton have large orders.— ! Both of these firms are enterprising manufacturer, and extensively pre i pared lor ibis business. To Mend Iron- Pots and Pans A correspondent of the Scientific Ameri- I can gives tiic following receipt for men jding broken iron pots and pans, as su : perioi to the Chinese : “lake two parts of sulphur, one part Iby weight, of lino black lead, and put the sulphur in an old iron pan, holding j it over the fire until the sulphur begins ito melt, when the black lead it added, j stired well until all is mixed and melt led, and then, in its molten stale, the compound is poured out on an iron plate or a smooth stone. When it has cooled down it is very hard, and is then bauken in small pieces. A quantity of this compound is placed upon t.ie crack lof the iron pot to be mended, and by a hot iron it can lie soldered in the same way a tinsmith solders his sheets. If ; there is a small hole in the pot, it is a .good plan todrive a copper rivet in it, and then solder it over with this cement. I know a person who mended an iron pot by the above plan upwards of twen- Ity years r.go, and lie lias used it ever since. Strange Feeling.—Copt. G'eo e Huggins, in whose loss all feel the tie i rcavement oLa friend'and companion, • was impressed, as many have been, I with u linn conviction, ho should die on ucertuin day, the twenty-second. Du ring some months he i.ad uttered this I belief to many. On his last visit to the i bjwn he consummated the purchase of Inis grave lot, saying he had few days to spare before the twenty-second catne; ! and on Satuday ho raised up from evi dent delirmn to ask “is this the twentv sccortd ?”—and with the negative in reply, sank back to sleep or insensibili ty. On Sunday, between 1 und 2 o’clock, faithful to his superstition, he left this life on tho twenty-second f Febtuary !— Mobile Register , Loth u/t. Cheap Diet. — The cheapest diet rta the world, wo think, i3 n fried pic.— We tried tourpence worth the other day, and for forty hours we were so crammed that our eyes stuck like a lobster. The young gentlemen who eats his beans with the fork of a river, has beau attempting to spin a mountain top. NO. 11.